A government minister has accepted more “transparency” is needed in its decision-making over academisation and transfers of schools into new trusts.
Baroness Barran, recently re-appointed academies minister, said it was in response to sector calls for greater openness as part of its ongoing review of academy regulation.
Speaking at the Schools and Academies Show in Birmingham today, she also pledged to “simplify” regulatory burdens on trusts, and highlighted the importance of trusts having “geographical coherence”.
